Architecture + Morality

I am not generally prone to call things “white privilege”. That’s probably because I am white and would prefer not to draw attention to its reality, or perceived reality. I don’t deny it...

http://architectureandmorality.blogspot.com/2017/02/universalism-is-white-privilege.html

Another tragedy has occurred in our nation and the dividing lines are clear once again. It doesn’t matter what the tragedy or issue is because the dividing lines are the same every time. On...

http://architectureandmorality.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-only-two-questions-youll-ever-need.html

As much as I fight against it, political correctness has taken over my mind. I find myself having what used to be perfectly ordinary views, but I now challenge them on the basis of thought po...

http://architectureandmorality.blogspot.com/2016/06/am-i-racist-if-i-dont-like-rap-music.html

When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things. Mark 6:34, ESV Pastors oft...

http://architectureandmorality.blogspot.com/2016/06/should-i-perform-this-marriage-ceremony.html

After the June 26 SCOTUS decision, many conservative Christians were worried their tax exempt status would eventually be in jeopardy. After all, if same sex marriage became the law of the land, ...

http://architectureandmorality.blogspot.com/2015/07/going-atomic-on-oppenheimer.html

Only after living with Boyhood in my head for a few days did I realize that I had watched the movie all wrong. This review will give nothing away, but perhaps it will help you watch it if you...

http://architectureandmorality.blogspot.com/2015/01/three-cheers-for-boyhood-movie-that.html

What I am about to ask is about as controversial a question as one can ask in the Church. But because I’ve rarely heard it asked, I’ll ask: Do we need more mission congregations? For tho...

http://architectureandmorality.blogspot.com/2014/10/do-we-need-more-mission-congregations.html

When my former church body issued a new hymnal (or “worship resource” as such things are now called), it contained an iconic image of people in the act of worship. This was not meant to be a ...

http://architectureandmorality.blogspot.com/2014/06/on-thomas-theology-of-usefulness.html

If you’ve never seen Sister Act, you probably should. It’s funny and charming and relatively innocent. If you haven’t, here’s a three sentence summary: a lounge singer enters a conven...

http://architectureandmorality.blogspot.com/2014/02/how-sister-act-skewed-real-urban.html

   Inside a corporate architectural office. Notice that everyone works on computers and there are no walls or partitions, supposedly to foster team collaborat...

http://architectureandmorality.blogspot.com/2013/10/five-years-later-being-architect-under.html

Living the Parisian lifestyle has been the stuff of dreams shared by people the world over.  The elegant streets, framed by the sumptous Haussman style apartment blocks, tree-lined alleys, and ...

http://architectureandmorality.blogspot.com/2013/07/paris-and-desert-living-in-city-of.html

My guess is that any reader of this blog has their mind pretty well made up about abortion. You either argue from the point-of-view of the baby, whose life you believe began at conception and wh...

http://architectureandmorality.blogspot.com/2013/07/servitude-and-abortion-why-christians.html

Tattoos are ubiquitous and no passing fad. It goes without saying that tattoos have moved off the Navy ships and out of the motorcycle gangs to include the bodies of a large minority of 20-somet...

http://architectureandmorality.blogspot.com/2013/01/dont-get-inked-why-church-should-start.html

It is hard to preach in an era when everybody already knows everything and when everyone demands to be entertained. Everybody already knows everything because all knowledge is now just a good...

http://architectureandmorality.blogspot.com/2012/11/stay-in-damn-pulpit-when-preacher.html

This piece, you will see, was written several months ago…after some encouragement, it is being posted now.  I'm a Lutheran pastor, but when on vacation, I almost always hit up the most bea...

http://architectureandmorality.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-problem-with-catholics-do-they-care.html

Mitt Romney is poised to become America's first Mormon president. His debate performances have won over a number of independents, evangelicals have gone from saying they'd never vote for a Morm...

http://architectureandmorality.blogspot.com/2012/10/how-romneys-mormonism-will-affect-his.html

Among the younger set in my profession, there emerges a bitter realisation on the difference in architectural quality between what they produce on the job and what gets published in the officia...

http://architectureandmorality.blogspot.com/2012/08/of-taste-and-transactions-cultural.html

Like most normal, red-blooded American boys, I grew up with an understanding that this nation was a city on a hill, a supreme nation whose history and people separated it from all others. As ...

http://architectureandmorality.blogspot.com/2012/06/maybe-america-isnt-so-great-after-all.html

La Tourette Monastery by Le Corbusier  in Eveux, France Inspired by a recent visit to a Le Corbusier-designed Dominican monastery near the French city of Lyon, I've been thinking a lot a...

http://architectureandmorality.blogspot.com/2011/12/vapid-unbearable-lightness-why-modern.html

I'm no huge fan of Newt Gingrich for all the reasons that have been said time and again in the last month. He has lots of baggage, both politically and personally, and it is hard to nail him d...

http://architectureandmorality.blogspot.com/2011/12/im-glad-newt-is-catholic-convert-and.html

Below is a sermon preached to a congregation December 4, 2011. Usually, I don't publish sermons, but this had enough commentary on society's embrace of subjective stories that I thought it wou...

http://architectureandmorality.blogspot.com/2011/12/tyranny-of-story.html

Imagine a political climate in which politicians urge citizens that murdering one another might actually be a moral option worth pursuing in the event of a disagreement. Perhaps they would sug...

http://architectureandmorality.blogspot.com/2011/08/thou-shall-not-covet.html

Grande Salines in the town of Salin-les-Bains Much like lectures, vacations are a good way to step back, relax and evaluate things more clearly. It helps to find oneself in a completely fo...

http://architectureandmorality.blogspot.com/2011/08/learning-from-jura-musings-on-life-and.html

Sao Paulo-will our future be the 'favelas' or the high rises? In my field of work, it is always a good thing to refresh one's mind with the work and research of others, especially from thos...

http://architectureandmorality.blogspot.com/2011/06/too-big-to-solve-when-architecture.html

It should come as no surprise to regular readers of this blog, or even a casual observer of American Protestantism that we have big problems. The mainline protestant churches are shells of the...

http://architectureandmorality.blogspot.com/2011/05/hang-on-to-your-ego-how-big-heads.html